The 80's, and other early harbingers of the Apocalypse

So, because I like to torture myself, and have recently given up one of my favorite pastimes for Yom Kippur or Lent or something, I have turned to the never-fail method of Really Bad Music Videos.

Invisible Woman, bless her, is right there with the bad 80's nostalgia trip. Thanks to her, I found myself watching this video by Vanity again and again:

(embedding disabled, which is probably a blessing, really)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fub8EXoMShc

Oh, I'm not saying it isn't the best song/video about money shots ever to be represented with feathers and giant glasses full of styrofoam peanuts. Just: well, the hair! the shoulders! the hair! the shiny! the burpy synthesizer! the gauzy floaty things! the Pretension! the HAIR!...

there was a lot of that about, sadly.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=oKTiwCez6Zs

someone! left the wedding cake out!@ in the rain! apparently fatally. bummer, dude.



But Wait! There's More!

feel the PAIN:



So, today's boybands make you writhe and twitch uncontrollably, do they? Well, listen up, l'il missy: -this- is what SOME of us were subjected to in our tender youth:



Oh yeah, that's right: FEAR the fedoras. and the SKIPPING OF DOOM.

But the very best song and/or video of the era, and possibly ever, I still think, has to be this:



Enjoy.